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The Cape Byron Information Centre (Cape Gallery) is located at the Cape Byron Lighthouse on Walgun. Boasting spectacular views the Cape Gallery is an information centre, gallery and shop operated by Arakwal National Park. In our cultural resource room you can learn about Arakwal cultural information from publications and information boards like:
Come and see us at the gift shop where we offer publications, artwork and other gifts. Cape Byron Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Byron Bay. Open 9:30am-4:30pm 7 days a week (closed Christmas Day).
Click here to view some of the products available at the Cape Byron Gallery.
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We stock a range of publications including DVD’s, reports, and resource books related to Arakwal culture and country. This includes the plan of management for Arakwal National Park prepared by NPWS. Check with us that we have them in stock.
Also you can check out Our Programs and Activities section of this website. In here are a range of our cultural learning programs, some of which have learning materials associated with them that may not be available through the Cape Gallery Shop. Go have a look when you get a chance!
Click here to go to Our Programs and Activities.
Place of Plenty BookletPrice: $17.95
Price: $29.95
Duration 13 minutes
Arakwal National Park Plan of Management BookletPrice: $10.00
Price: $30.00
Size: 75 cm x 100 cm
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A number of our community members are talented artists expressing their culture in visual form. Their artwork tells stories and helps to maintain our culture and tradition.
See the paintings and artwork presently on display and available for purchase through the Cape Gallery Shop. You can also view work by these artists by going to the page ‘Our Creative People’ under this section of the website. There you can also read about these artists, their stories, why they create art and what inspires them.
Nigel Stewart: whale paintingPrice: $220.00
Size: 75cm x 60 cm
Materials: Acrylic on Canvas
ngPrice: $20.00
Size: 31 cm x 6 cm
Price: $35.00
Size: 40cm x 8cm
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Whilst we don’t have a lot of crafts for viewing and for sale presently, our people enjoy making things from traditional baskets, practical tools to help us fish and hunt, and jewellery to wear.
This work reflects our culture and traditions and when combined with contemporary styles and materials creates quality fashion and craft items. Check this area out from time to time for additions to the gallery.
Price: $12.00
Size: 12 cm
Materials: Plastic beads, metal wire and clasp.
Size: 5 c m
Material: Plastic beads and metal
Price: $3.50
Size: 2 cm
Material: Plastic + Metal pin
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Click on and watch our short digital Welcome to Country video.
To find out more about Welcome to Country click here
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The following Learning Materials for Place of Plenty are available for download. Click Learn More below to find out more about this program.
No materials are online presently. In the next phase of developing this website we will upload and create links to resource materials related to this program such as:
If you have any enquiries about this program please liaise with us through Contact Us > General Enquiry in the Menu.
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The place we call Cavanbah, now known as Byron Bay and surrounding district are located in the Northern Rivers region, the northeast corner of New South Wales, Australia. It’s about 750 kms (480 miles) north of Sydney and 165 kms (103 miles) south of Brisbane. Walgun headland, known as Cape Byron, is the easternmost point of mainland Australia. Cavenbah has always been an important meeting place for the Arakwal, neighbouring clans and people of the Bundjalung nation. Arakwal Country extends from Seven Mile Beach, south of Broken Head, to the Brunswick River up north, out to the escarpment west of Byron Bay, and east out into the Tasman Sea.
Click Here to see a dynamic map which shows you where we are. Move your cursor from the centre of the map to the left or right to see our location – in the state of New South Wales, in Australia, and the Asia Pacific region.
Cavanbah and its hinterland are part of an erosion caldera of an ancient volcano which erupted 23 million years ago. Mt Wollumbin, the volcanic plug of this caldera and a sacred place to many Aboriginal tribes of our region, can be seen from many points in Cavanbah (Byron Bay) and on Walgun (Cape Byron, pictured here to the right). The hills and valleys of volcanic soils and their creeks come down to wetlands and estuaries lying behind long sweeping beaches, protected bays and coves with their rocky shores, and dunal systems covered in flowering heathlands and forests. These are home to many species of animal, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles.
These include shellfish, many fish species, sharks, dolphins, whales, turtles and dugong; eagles, pelicans, seabirds and waders, pigeons, parrots, honeyeaters and many other colourful birds; wallaby, echidna, possum, native rodents, flying fox and other small mammals; snakes, goanna, lizards, frogs and more! They are all special to us and part of our stories and connection to this wonderful Country.
Cavanbah has a sub-tropical climate with hot wet summers, and cool generally dry winters with clear skies and maximum daily temperatures around 20C. This climate is beneficial for all year round outdoor living. High annual rainfall regularly feeds local waterways and productive volcanic and alluvial soils. Combined with rich food sources linked to the coastal forests, estuaries and wetlands our people were able to live here permanently for thousands of years, and support visitors when they came as well to Cavanbah (meeting place). The same applies today with relaxed outdoor living and tourism attracting people to live and holiday here from all over the world.
“Please look after our country when you come here, this is a very sacred special place. Lets work together to keep our country clean and healthy. Yoway!” Sean Kay, Arakwal family member.
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We are strongly connected to our Country and it to us. The Dreaming made the land and gave us the land. Song-lines and stories identify and link places and events in the Dreaming, helping us to understand their interconnected value and show respect. These places are often called significant or sacred sites.
Some sites are special because they relate to women and men’s business or activities, or to animals and plants and their maintenance, others because they are meeting places or places of sustenance for us all. Some are special because they feature strongly in our Dreaming which explains our past, present and future link to land and sea Country and to each other, both around here and further away. Sites can link us to our ancestors and they connect us to the land. They help a person feel strong about where they came from. We can live elsewhere but this is where we belong and so its important to know and understand these significant sites so that you can walk around with pride.
Here are some signficant sites to look for and to understand. These can be shared with everyone and need to be respected. Many others are known only to our law holders and elders, or where knowledge has been passed on within our community for us to protect and look after them. In this way our culture can be resilient and prosper into the future.
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We have a site on Country to build our cultural centre which will be a key meeting place for our people. It is adjacent to the National Parks and Marine National Park headquarters where our corporation offices are currently based. We are busy raising and seeking the necessary funds and resources to make it a reality.
As well as a meeting and gathering place, we can hold workshops and activities there, as well as present cultural displays including art, music, dance, and our publications and products for viewing and purchase. In the meantime you can see a range of these at the Cape Gallery up at Walgun (Cape Byron) and on the Gallery pages of this website.
Keep watching this space – if you’d like to be advised of progress on the cultural centre then become a ‘Friend’ and subscribe to our free online newsletter by providing your details in the subscription box on the main Menu – we’ll keep you updated!
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